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Editorial Statement
American Journal of Psychology
This is a very special journal, deeply involved in the history of psychology, the organ of publication of some of its most distinguished and influential contributors. Founded in 1887 by G. Stanley Hall and edited in its early years by Titchener, Boring, and Dallenbach, the American Journal of Psychology has published some of the most innovative and formative papers in psychology.
The domain of the Journal is the basic science of mind, those aspects of mind we call cognitive, but also those aspects we call affective and conative. It is the theoretical and experimental enterprise at the heart of the discipline of psychology and fundamental to that intersection of disciplines now known as cognitive science.
The range is stunningly broad, but I would like some unifying focus on a fundamental set of philosophically and historically significant topics that have arisen throughout the discipline: the roles of consciousness and nonconscious processes; automaticity and the attentional, volitional, and deliberative; the forms and personal significance of memory; conceptual abstraction and induction; causality as perceived, inferred, and characterized; the senses and limits of rationality; relations of language to thought; the processes that constitute intelligence; the roles and limits of symbolic representation; mental activity as revealed by brain imaging or neuropathology; the uses and limits of introspection; and a cluster of puzzles having to do with apprehension of reality, from certain classical perceptual phenomena to commonplaces and disturbances in experience of self.
Donelson E. Dulany,
Editor
American Journal of Psychology
